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. add cpufeature detection of both
	. use it for both ipc and kernelcall traps, using a register
	  for call number
	. SYSENTER/SYSCALL does not save any context, therefore userland
	  has to save it
	. to accomodate multiple kernel entry/exit types, the entry
	  type is recorded in the process struct. hitherto all types
	  were interrupt (soft int, exception, hard int); now SYSENTER/SYSCALL
	  is new, with the difference that context is not fully restored
	  from proc struct when running the process again. this can't be
	  done as some information is missing.
	. complication: cases in which the kernel has to fully change
	  process context (i.e. sigreturn). in that case the exit type
	  is changed from SYSENTER/SYSEXIT to soft-int (i.e. iret) and
	  context is fully restored from the proc struct. this does mean
	  the PC and SP must change, as the sysenter/sysexit userland code
	  will otherwise try to restore its own context. this is true in the
	  sigreturn case.
	. override all usage by setting libc_ipc=1
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Ben Gras
2012-06-10 17:50:17 +00:00
parent 629829e69c
commit 2d72cbec41
38 changed files with 643 additions and 79 deletions
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@@ -240,8 +240,10 @@ void kmain(kinfo_t *local_cbi)
get_cpulocal_var(proc_ptr) = rp;
/* Process isn't scheduled until VM has set up a pagetable for it. */
if(rp->p_nr != VM_PROC_NR && rp->p_nr >= 0)
if(rp->p_nr != VM_PROC_NR && rp->p_nr >= 0) {
rp->p_rts_flags |= RTS_VMINHIBIT;
rp->p_rts_flags |= RTS_BOOTINHIBIT;
}
rp->p_rts_flags |= RTS_PROC_STOP;
rp->p_rts_flags &= ~RTS_SLOT_FREE;